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Speaker 3: It's not just your normal run of the mill home

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Speaker 1: for our purposes, the twenty twenty five home run derby

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched this or not. It

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Speaker 1: know by now that great night for the Seattle Mariners.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations the Mariners. Now I don't get to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: They've never been, but this is their event back in

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Speaker 1: Griffy Jr. Dominating the derby with his hat on backwards.

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Speaker 1: Baseball took care of cal Raleigh to make sure that

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Speaker 1: who's the guy with the hair piece? Karl Ravage, Karl Raviitch.

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Speaker 1: He was on TV there Sanna. He thought there was

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Speaker 5: Do do do Do Do doo? They changed their story.

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Speaker 5: Big brother got involved. Yep, they changed their story. Baseball

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Speaker 1: Cast ruler cal Raley advances because of the nerds makes

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Speaker 1: you wonder. Right now, I'm not saying for sure that

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball rigged the home run derby because I

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Speaker 1: You can decide for yourself whether or not the home

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Speaker 1: Zero point zero eight feet less than an inch. Now,

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Speaker 1: Baseball got a chubby that they got to decide this

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Speaker 1: not gonna win the MVP, but he's having an MVP season,

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Speaker 1: Judge and he advances to the second round. Originally, you know,

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Speaker 1: What makes someone notable? And said they Saban is not

426
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: necessarily done coaching. In fact, said the person was adamant,

427
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: adamant that Nick Saban would return to the sideline. So

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00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which

429
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: you're part of. The question is what are the chances

430
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: what are the chances that the old Alabama football coach

431
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: Nick Saban returns to the sidelines. So I've got Wall Street, Wikipedia,

432
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: and original Cup of Noodles, and we will combine all

433
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make

434
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: some chicken soup for the soul. Not just chicken soup,

435
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 1: but chicken soup for the soul. So number, I said number.

436
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna set the Malor Sportsbook odds on this

437
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: at plus one fifty. I'm sending the odds at plus

438
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: one fifty. So if you're not good with math, that

439
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: implies a forty percent chance that we activate Saban. Watch

440
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: Saban watch activad. That's right. I know this big, big news,

441
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: big news. So we think that's actually pretty good forty

442
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: percent if you look at all the different variables involving

443
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, and he's gonna turn seventy four on Halloween. Swoocky. Now,

444
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: as a rule of thumb, the R word retirement, which

445
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: again this is kind of a flimsy retirement college football

446
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: and just sports in general. I learned it at an

447
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: early age. I used to be a big boxing fan

448
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: and I as see, I'm retired. That's it. In really

449
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: any form of entertainment, whether it's like how many bands

450
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: have retired and said this is the last tour because

451
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: they got to sell tickets, and then they take a

452
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: year off or two, and then they come back and

453
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: they go on tour again and they say, now this

454
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: is really the last tour. This is it. The same

455
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: thing happens in sports, right, It's a coach who's been good,

456
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: who steps aside and says I ain't coming back. That's it.

457
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: It's about as final as a person dying in a

458
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: soap opera. You know those soap opera desks, Well, all

459
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden they show up, you know, a couple

460
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: of episodes later, well, and one minute the villain has

461
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: exited stage left, see you later, And the next the

462
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: villain returns right sipping gatorade in this case, and they're

463
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: calling blitzes on the sidelines with a scowl on their face.

464
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: And Nick Saban, I know he won some kind of award,

465
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: but if you watch them on television, pretty bad at television, right, No,

466
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: no entertainment value by Nick Saban, just a hard oh

467
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: on television. I don't know anyone that thought Saban was

468
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: good at TV other than those that are sucking the

469
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: toes of Nick Saban. Some of those people liked him,

470
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: but for people that are just looking to get entertained,

471
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: Nick Saban not very entertaining. So he was bad at television.

472
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: But he got the job because he had the resume.

473
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: And that's how that works. You get those jobs because

474
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: of your resume, and it's who you know and all

475
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: that stuff, and people get all excited because your resume

476
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: and you know, speaking riddles and coach speak and all

477
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: that gibberish and all that nonsense. Now ask yourself, ask

478
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: yourself this question, what does a football lifer coaching football?

479
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: Since he was a young lad. What does he do

480
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: when the spotlight dims? Like, what do you do? You

481
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: go out and garden the home and garden action in there.

482
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: You play a little church bingo on a Friday night,

483
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: try to win big money, big money, big money. Yeah, golf,

484
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: What are you fink? Fish? Is that what you did?

485
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: You go fishing in a lake somewhere? Yeah. Nick Saban

486
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: about his version of fishing is really in some five

487
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: star recruit and pantsing a rival. That's his move. Now

488
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: this story is bouncing around, bounce bounce, bounce, bounce by

489
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: and it's it's going all over the echo chamber, kind

490
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: of like a pinball machine. The echo chambers gets in

491
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: there and starts bouncing all over the place, and there's

492
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: some he hits some buzzer. You win like a couple

493
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: extra points on that. And so I imagine that the whispers,

494
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: which do have some credibility because it's one of Saban's

495
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: former players. It was one of his former quarterbacks that's

496
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: tossing that out into the to the ether. Who's saying that?

497
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: But you imagine just that alone, just the mere speculation

498
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, not on the record, but off the record.

499
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: You have athletic directors and big time boosters at down

500
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: in the luck football programs or even those that think

501
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: they're not down on the luck. You know, from East

502
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: Lansling to College station and everywhere in between. Son, Wait

503
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: a minute, you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's

504
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: a chance there. Nick Saban's not dead. He's just bored.

505
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: He's just bored. And if you want to get technical,

506
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: Nick Saban did not take retirement. They retire. He took

507
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: a TV job. He went on hiatus, is what he did.

508
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: And in many ways he escaped. And so that's the

509
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: part of the story where you're like, well, Nick Saban

510
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: innerly retire. He just was tired of the bull crap.

511
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: You get to a certain age, whatever your job is.

512
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: I've learned this from my older relatives when I was younger.

513
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: You just get to a point in life where you

514
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: just tired of the bull crap. You're tired of people

515
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: not doing their job. You're tired of people you know,

516
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: not doing the things they're supposed to do, and you're

517
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: tire the rules to get put in there, and you

518
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: just like shut it down. And so Nick Saban slipped

519
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: through the back door of college football he just went

520
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: to television, and I didn't want to be part of it.

521
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: He did not want to be part of what was

522
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: going on the nil. No, Nick Saban liked when he

523
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: was the guy that was given out money, and he

524
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: was he was the one handing out envelopes with cash.

525
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: That's what he liked. He didn't like when everyone's doing it.

526
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: And the transfer portal, what is wrong with you? The

527
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: transfer portal? Have you lost your bloody mind? My god?

528
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: Transfer port and revenue sharing? What is that? Nonsense? Nonsense?

529
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: Nick Saban said. So Saban saw what was happening, this

530
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: metamorphosis as college turning into some kind of Wall Street

531
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: like internship thing mixed in with some other crap. And

532
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: so they' say, hey, I'm a Septutioninearian, I'm out, I'm out.

533
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: As we turned the page to page through here, where

534
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: are there some of the college landing spots? Let me

535
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: kind of hold your hand walk you through this. So

536
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: where are some of the college landing spots for Nick Saban?

537
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: If Nick Saban were to come back in the multiverse,

538
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: so Saban he can have any job that he wants.

539
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: Can we agree on that? To any job that Saban

540
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: wants outside of like maybe three, there's maybe three jobs

541
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: Saban can't have. But outside of that, any job he wants,

542
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: he's got the Q score, he's got the awards. On

543
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: his Wikipedia page, there's a lot of chess candy, a

544
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: lot of chess candy there. And so now I don't

545
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: buy that he's necessarily going back to college football. That's

546
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: not the play here. That's not the play. However, for

547
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: the purposes of this malad monologue, to engage in this

548
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: hyper hypothetical conversation, and we will embrace the reality that

549
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: in the multiverse, there is a dement where Nick Saban

550
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: does return to college football that he decides I had

551
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: my little temper tantrum, I had my conniption fit, I

552
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: had my hissy fit, and I want back in. So

553
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: if Saban did return, there's only two conferences he can

554
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: go back to. You've got the varsity and the junior varsity,

555
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: the varsity of the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference.

556
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: The junior varsity is everyone else. It's everyone else. So

557
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: you've got either Southeastern Conference or the Big Ten. And

558
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: do not discount Nick Saban walking right back into Tuscaloosa

559
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, I want my old gigback, or going

560
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: up to Batol Rouge, Louisiana and saying, hey, I used

561
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: to be here. I wouldn't mind coming back. I know

562
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: you hired Brian Kelly, but I want back. Or let's

563
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: go back to Michigan and I want to make East

564
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: Lancing great again and go back to East Lansing and

565
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: all that good. You can always sell if you're Nick

566
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: Saban on unfinished business at any of those schools, he

567
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: can say, listen, I won at Alabama, I had some success.

568
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: I did win at LSU, but I didn't win enough.

569
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 1: And I had Michigan State. I did not get to

570
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: the peak of my superpowers that came later, So you

571
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: can sell that. And it's obviously not about the money

572
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: because he's loaded. Have you seen the photos of Nick

573
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: Saban's home, and he's got multiple homes. But the guy's

574
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: absolutely stacked. He's got enough dough to live the life

575
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: of Riley and for multiple reincarnations of Nick Saban for

576
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: the rest of his days and then days after that.

577
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: Now the NFL is much more likely. No, it's not,

578
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: he's too old. I'll tell you why. I believe the

579
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: NFL is more likely for Nick Saban, because Saban sucked

580
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck with the Dolphins. And

581
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: we were on these microphones at Fox Sports Radio when

582
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: that was going on, and it was a major blot

583
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: and remains a major blot on the resume of Nick Saban.

584
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: Not to mention the fact when the rumors were he

585
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: was going to go coach at Alabama, and Saban lied

586
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: to the media in Miami about taking the job at

587
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: Alabama while the private plane was warming up at the

588
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: airport to take him to Alabama to sign the paperwork

589
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: to become the coach of the Crimson Tide. So the

590
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: NFL chewed up Nick Saban, there's no other way to say.

591
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: It couldn't handle it, made bad decisions with personnel, and

592
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: of course he spent all of his years at Alabama.

593
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: Whenever the NFL comes up, he always blames the training

594
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: staff in Miami. He never takes accountability that he was

595
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: a failed NFL coach. Doesn't do it. He always well,

596
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: I wanted Drew Brees and I couldn't get Drew Brees,

597
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: and so that's why I had to settle for Dante Culpepper,

598
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: and he sucked. And it's not my coaching and anything.

599
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: And I didn't pick the wrong players. It's the training

600
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: staff there in Miami. That's the reason I wasn't good.

601
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: But he ran out of Miami. He ran out of

602
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 1: Miami like the building was on fire. You cannot wait

603
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: to get out of there. And that relationship with the

604
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: Dolphins back in the early part of the two thousands, right,

605
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: he left there and it was like quicker than somebody

606
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: finishing a Netflix night of binge watching. I mean, he's gone,

607
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm out see you later. And two seasons, two seasons,

608
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: I believe Nick Saban lasted if I remember correctly, with

609
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and then he went back to college and

610
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: never looked back. He only talked about it every once

611
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: in a while. Somebody would bring it up and he'd

612
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: he'd come up with his normal excuses and said, well,

613
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: it was not my fault. Ain't my fault. That guy's

614
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: the problem, right, And so going back to the NFL would,

615
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: as the intellectuals like to say, close the circle. So

616
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: final point, which NFL job makes the most sense for

617
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: Nick Saban? If my hypothesis is correct, that the NFL

618
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: would be the place to go for Nick Saban, because

619
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: that is the one flaw that is the turd in

620
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: the punch bowl for Nick Saban. So which NFL job?

621
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: So you look at Saban here the shopping list. What's

622
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: on Nick Saban's shopping list? He wants to buy the groceries.

623
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: He wants the right chessboard. He wants that chessboard to

624
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: be perfectly set off, the right piece is in place, right,

625
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: everything lined up in a row, pre assemble. He does

626
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: not want to go to Ikea and have to build

627
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: the thing by himself. Does not want that. Nobody wants

628
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: that right, Nobody wants that. So think of it like

629
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: one of those NFL jobs. That's like the original cup

630
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: of noodles. You just add water. That's it. Just add water,

631
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: warming up a little bit. You're in good shape. An

632
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: established quarterback is a must. An established quarterback is a must.

633
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: Gotta have it. So by the process of elimination for

634
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, there's one job that is obvious for Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban in the NFL. You ready for it? You figured

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Speaker 1: it out. Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Who says no, the Buffalo Bills have just entered the chat.

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Speaker 1: Let me make my elevator pitch. Why if Nick Saban

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Speaker 1: does come back. The Buffalo bills make the most sense.

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Speaker 1: Here's why. All right, now, I know for some of

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Speaker 1: you it sounds like bananas. Well, that's why the guy's

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Speaker 1: doing the overnight show. Let me explain. It would be

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Speaker 1: like if you were to go into a bar in

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Speaker 1: Rochester and see George Clooney working as a bartender. That

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Speaker 1: makes those of why would he go to Rochester? Why

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Speaker 1: would Nick Saban go to Buffalo? Let me make my case.

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Speaker 1: Saban has never been a guy that needs La or

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Speaker 1: New York. He does not need that. He's from the

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Speaker 1: old he doesn't need that crap. That's not what he is, right,

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Speaker 1: and he mostly coached in relatively small college towns Tuscaloosa

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Speaker 1: where the biggest man in Tuscaloos is Van the one

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Speaker 1: legged bamamn So Tuscaloosa and East Lansing, Michigan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Those are the places. So you've got that. Then you

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Speaker 1: look at the bills and whether you think Nick Saban's

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Speaker 1: in line for that job or not, we can all

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Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is not lot

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Speaker 1: long for the bills. He's on the endangered species list

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Speaker 1: for coaches. The Bills have been hovering close to being

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Speaker 1: a really good team, and they always find a new

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Speaker 1: way to screw it up. And a lot of it

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Speaker 1: is the decision making by Sean McDermott and his decisions

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Not all, but a lot. So Sean

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Speaker 1: mcdermot's on the hot seat. Buffalo has an NFL MVP quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. They check that box. What's in the box?

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Speaker 1: They checked the box, so they've got that and they've

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Speaker 1: been just inches away like Brent Rooker was in the

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Speaker 1: home run derby with Cal Rawley, just an inch one,

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Speaker 1: just an inch away from the from greatness and the

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Speaker 1: downside obviously, listen, the Lake Effect blizzards are no joke,

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Speaker 1: right the the amount of snow that they get at

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Speaker 1: that stadium is insane. It makes Siberia look like a

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Speaker 1: day at the riviera right when you're when you're watching

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Speaker 1: these games and there's a it's like a snow globe

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Speaker 1: when they're playing these games. So you know, one or

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Speaker 1: two a year it's it's like a Blizzard snow globe

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Speaker 1: game and all that stuff, and so, but that actually

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Speaker 1: works is an advance. You don't have the distractions you

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Speaker 1: had in Miami, or you'd have in La or New

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Speaker 1: York where or Vegas where people actually want to go

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Speaker 1: out and live their life and party it up. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that, right, So Buffalo makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Now. The only other possibility, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this we talked about, even though it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happened the Dallas Cowboys, because Jerry Jones will find

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Speaker 1: a way to grab headlines by saying, well, what about

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They don't have a coach, that Schottenheimer guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the worst coach in the NFL. What

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Speaker 1: a joke that higher was total placeholder, higher total seat filler,

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Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones might wake up on this. I need

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Speaker 1: some headlines. Let me get the Cowboys in the news

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Speaker 1: here and uh yeah, I'll start selling next Saban. I'll

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Speaker 1: leak that to some of my useful idiots in the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy media.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go smaller? How about that

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Speaker 1: to the third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big fent gets grilled.

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Speaker 4: Cool TMZ caught up with Randy Moss over the weekend,

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Speaker 4: and Mass said that he thinks Justin Jefferson is on

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Speaker 4: pace to be arguably the greatest ever. Ben, do you

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Speaker 4: think goat status isn't reach for Jefferson?

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Speaker 1: Well, that shows you. Randy Moss, first of all, is

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Speaker 1: grown up. Right. The old Randy Moss was, are you

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Speaker 1: know bleeping kidding me? I'm Randy eff and Moss. I'm

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Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. But now Randy's older. R

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Speaker 1: He had some health problems, so now he's like, no,

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Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson has a chance. He is weasel turn now

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Speaker 1: in terms of Viking history. All Justin Jefferson has to

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Speaker 1: do is be the top wide receiver on a Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl winning Viking team and he zooms past Randy Moss.

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Speaker 1: Does he have a chance, Sure, but he's got to

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Speaker 1: stay healthy, gotta have longevity, that whole thing. That's the problem.

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Speaker 4: Next, suddenly, the Red Sox are on fire heading into

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Speaker 4: the All Star break. They're on a ten game win

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Speaker 4: streak and just three games behind the division leading Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: They're on a burner. Do you think they will be

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Speaker 1: buyers at the deadline? The Red Sox should always be

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Speaker 1: buyers at the deadline. You play in Boston. Hello, you

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Speaker 1: play in Boston. And ever since they traded Rafael Devers,

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Speaker 1: it's almost like he was a tumor for that team.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of the tumor and the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: have taken off. It also helps if they played the

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Speaker 1: Rockies and the White Sox in this stretch of ten

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Speaker 1: wins and all that, But they look like a real team.

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Speaker 1: He's young players. Some of these young guys are actually

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Speaker 1: doing well and we're heading into the dog days. And

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Speaker 1: if you're in contention and you're a team like the

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Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox, you go out, you go to market

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Speaker 1: and you add players they need. I would think another

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Speaker 1: starting pitching would be the most pressing need for the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox, just looking from afar at their roster.

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Speaker 4: Next, Terry Francona just became the thirteenth manager ever to

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Speaker 4: reach two thousand career wins. Bruce Bochi is the only

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Speaker 4: active manager with more ben How high up the list

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Speaker 4: do you think Francona can climb before calling it a career?

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Speaker 1: Right So, Francona right now is thirteenth in wins all time.

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Speaker 1: He's going to pass Leo de Rocher before the end

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Speaker 1: of the year and as a shot to pass Walter

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Speaker 1: Alston like he's definitely he's eight behind Leo de Rocher,

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Speaker 1: forty behind Walter Allston, but realistically tenth where Joe McCarthy

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Speaker 1: is or Bucky Harris at number nine. He can finish

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Speaker 1: number nine. Coop number nine? How did we do you pass?

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Speaker 1: This edition?

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Speaker 3: There is not so what punny on that Bart Putty

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Speaker 3: on that Bart I won the game?

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Speaker 1: Blind Scott I won the game.

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Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not,

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Speaker 1: Welcome into our contestants. We have any meenie, miney moe.

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Speaker 1: We have Dave in Cincinnati. What's going on? Dave? Welcome?

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Speaker 1: What man? Dave? You tell me?

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Speaker 3: Dave?

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Speaker 1: Just get ready for work?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: To win this game? All right? Who do you want

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Speaker 1: to partner up with? Dave? You got me? You got cool?

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Speaker 1: You know I need you?

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Speaker 4: Ben?

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Speaker 1: All right, We're in it to win to day we're

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Speaker 1: in it to win it, and we have Kelly in

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Speaker 1: the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi, Ben, how's everything going Donut

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Speaker 1: formerly known as Donut Kelly? Yes, all right, and Kelly, well,

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Speaker 1: I will be with you. You will be with you,

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Speaker 1: all right. Coop's excited about this studying Ben, how's that

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Speaker 1: going for you? I could use a little more work. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're studying sports, getting closer though, learning about sports. Okay?

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Speaker 1: What are the categories here? Coop? All right?

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Speaker 4: This is the Harrison Ford edition. He turned eighty three

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Speaker 4: years old on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The Categoriana Jones is in his eighties. That's right.

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Speaker 4: The categories are Star Wars, The Last Crusade, Water to Wine,

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Speaker 4: and forty two? Dave, which kategory?

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Speaker 1: Would your like? The Crusade? That's to say? All right, man, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: how about you? I'm sorry?

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Speaker 4: Wellard again, Star Wars, Water to Wine, and forty two.

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Speaker 1: Water to wine? All right, all right, let's say your category, Coop?

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Speaker 1: Very nice? All right, Dave? You picked last Crusade. Yes,

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Speaker 1: these athletes came out of retirement for one last hurrah,

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Speaker 1: one last moment in the sun. Are you ready, Dave?

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Speaker 1: All we need the first and last name put forty

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Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock and we're on our way. Go.

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Speaker 1: Larry Bird's rival in the NBA in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1: Greatest boxer of all time. He changed his name in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the Yes, a favorite tight end of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady in the glory days of the Patriots. Yes,

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Speaker 1: start tight end with the Cowboys. He quit to go

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night football and everyone almost Yes. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: minister of defense for the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay because God. Yes, all star second basement for

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs of the nineteen eighties. Was a Rule

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Speaker 1: five pick from the Phillies. White guy hit a lot

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Speaker 1: of home runs at Wrigley Field, all right. Pitcher for

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Speaker 1: the Negro League. Pitcher went to Major League. His first

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Speaker 1: name was a was. The first name was a bag.

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Speaker 1: Would you've gotten that, Dave? His first name was a bag.

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Speaker 1: First name was a bag. Bag. Yes, Satchel Pagetchel Page.

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Speaker 1: I was proud of myself.

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Speaker 4: That was a good hint, all right. And Ryan Sandberg

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Speaker 4: was the other one that you missed there.

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Speaker 1: He did all right there pretty well?

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Speaker 4: All right, Kelly, we have water to wine was our school. Yes,

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Speaker 4: These athletes were all part of miracle plays. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 4: forty five seconds on the clock. Kelly at to begin

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Speaker 4: Giants quarterback brother of Peyton.

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Speaker 1: Yes, uh.

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Speaker 4: This guy was the rival of Magic Johnson in the eighties. Yes,

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Speaker 4: this guy was the quarterback for the Steelers in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Terry Bright. Yes uh, this guy he had the miracle catch.

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Speaker 1: His nickname was to say, hey kid. He died recently.

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Speaker 2: Willie.

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Speaker 1: Yes, uh.

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Speaker 4: This guy was the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass

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Speaker 4: to Stefan Diggs during the Minneapolis Miracle.

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Speaker 1: Oh the other one, I answered, answering, No, okay, we're.

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Speaker 4: Gonna get that. This guy was the Minneapolis miracle. You

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Speaker 4: had the touch down. He was also stopped one yard

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Speaker 4: short of the Super Bowl man Case Case Keenum was

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Speaker 4: the quarterback and Kevin Dyson was the one who was

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Speaker 4: stop short.

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Speaker 1: What is it? Seventy points? Is that it? Really? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I thought that was more than that. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's find so oh yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 1: what is it? I apologize? I didn't think you guys

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Speaker 1: it was one hundred Yeah it was one hundred point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you were very old, We were very loud, very Okay, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: do you want Star Wars or forty two Star Wars? Okay? Uh.

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Speaker 4: These athletes have all won an All Star Game or

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Speaker 4: Pro Bowl MVP for forty five segments. Begin star on

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Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, he is the

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Speaker 4: quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: Right now. He was.

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Speaker 4: He was a quarterback for the Browns before he's on

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Speaker 4: the commercials.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: Most famous Japanese player before O Tawny.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this guy was Barry's dad, the home run King,

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Speaker 1: his dad.

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Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was part of the two Towers in Houston,

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Speaker 4: but not not.

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Speaker 1: Him, the other one.

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Speaker 4: No, all right, this guy was the quarterback after Kurt

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Speaker 4: Warner on the Rams.

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Speaker 1: How many is that? Good job? Good job? Yeah it was.

849
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 4: It was eighty points eight.

850
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: Twenty. All right, here we go, Dave. These athletes all

851
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: were number forty two. Are you ready, Dave? All right?

852
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers number forty two, retired by everybody. Yes, the

853
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: closer for the Yankees, the sand Man in the nineties. Yes,

854
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: you said it, he did it. Say it. Marion Man,

855
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: the safety for the forty nine ers in the eighties.

856
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: He cut off his finger for the forty nine ers. No,

857
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: oh my god, he run single. Yeah, it's Ronnie Lot.

858
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: We Ronnie Cats. Ronnie Lock got a goal to tack,

859
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: and we got a goal in the tack. We won

860
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: the game. We got a golden take it all right,